Pictorial guide to the flora of the British Isles

Amaranthaceae

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1. Amaranthus albus L. – white pigweed
2. Amaranthus blitoides S. Watson – prostrate pigweed
3. Amaranthus blitum L. – Guernsey pigweed
4. Amaranthus bouchonii Thell. – indehiscent amaranth
5. Amaranthus caudatus L. – love-lies-bleeding
6. Amaranthus cruentus L. – purple amaranth
7. Amaranthus deflexus L. – perennial pigweed
8. Amaranthus graecizans L. – short-tepalled pigweed
9. Amaranthus hybridus L. – green amaranth
10. Amaranthus hypochondriacus L. – prince’s feather
11. Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson – dioecious amaranth
12. Amaranthus powellii S. Watson – Powell’s amaranth
13. Amaranthus retroflexus L. – common amaranth
14. Amaranthus thunbergii Moq. – Thunberg’s pigweed
15. Atriplex glabriuscula Edmonston – Babington’s orache
16. Atriplex halimus L. – shrubby orache
17. Atriplex hortensis L. – garden orache
18. Atriplex laciniata L. – frosted orache
19. Atriplex littoralis L. – grass-leaved orache
20. Atriplex longipes Drejer – long-stalked orache
21. Atriplex patula L. – common orache
22. Atriplex pedunculata L. – pedunculate sea-purslane
23. Atriplex portulacoides L. – sea purslane
24. Atriplex praecox Hülph. – early orache
25. Atriplex prostrata Boucher ex DC. – spear-leaved orache
26. Atriplex sagittata Borkh. – shining orache
27. Atriplex × gustafssoniana Tascher. – Kattegat orache
28. Atriplex × taschereaui Stace – Taschereau’s orache
29. Bassia scoparia (L.) Voss – summer cypress
30. Beta trigyna Waldst. & Kit. – Caucasian beet
31. Beta vulgaris L. – beet
    1. Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla (L.) Arcang. – sugar beet
    2. Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima (L.) Arcang. – sea beet
    3. Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris L. – root beet
32. Blitum bonus-henricus (L.) Rchb. – Good King Henry
33. Blitum capitatum L. – strawberry blite
34. Chenopodiastrum hybridum (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch – maple-leaved goosefoot
35. Chenopodiastrum murale (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch – nettle-leaved goosefoot
36. Chenopodium album L. – fat-hen
37. Chenopodium berlandieri Moq. – pitseed goosefoot
38. Chenopodium bushianum Aellen – soyabean goosefoot
39. Chenopodium ficifolium Sm. – fig-leaved goosefoot
40. Chenopodium giganteum D. Don – tree spinach
41. Chenopodium opulifolium Schrad. ex W. D. J. Koch & Ziz – grey goosefoot
42. Chenopodium pratericola Rydb. – slimleaf goosefoot
43. Chenopodium probstii Aellen – Probst’s goosefoot
44. Chenopodium quinoa Willd. – quinoa
45. Chenopodium strictum Roth – striped goosefoot
46. Chenopodium suecicum Murray – Swedish goosefoot
47. Chenopodium vulvaria L. – stinking goosefoot
48. Corispermum intermedium Schweigg. – bugseed
49. Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants – Mexican tea
50. Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants – sticky goosefoot
51. Lipandra polysperma (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch – many-seeded goosefoot
52. Oxybasis chenopodioides (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch – saltmarsh goosefoot
53. Oxybasis glauca (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch – oak-leaved goosefoot
54. Oxybasis rubra (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch – red goosefoot
55. Oxybasis urbica (L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch – upright goosefoot
56. Salicornia disarticulata Moss – one-flowered glasswort
57. Salicornia dolichostachya Moss – long-spiked glasswort
58. Salicornia emerici Duval-Jouve – shiny glasswort
59. Salicornia europaea L. – common glasswort
60. Salicornia fragilis P. W. Ball & Tutin – yellow glasswort
61. Salicornia obscura P. W. Ball & Tutin – glaucous glasswort
62. Salicornia ramosissima (Hook. f.) Woods ex W. A. Clarke & E. S. Marshall – purple glasswort
63. Salsola kali L. – saltwort
64. Salsola tragus L. – spineless saltwort
65. Sarcocornia perennis (Mill.) A. J. Scott – perennial glasswort
66. Spinacia oleracea L. – spinach
67. Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort. – annual sea-blite
68. Suaeda vera Forssk. ex J. F. Gmel. – shrubby sea-blite